"A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to support Polish independence."
Greta Garbo
as Countess Marie Walewska
Charles Boyer
as Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte
Reginald Owen
as Tallyrand
Alan Marshal
as Capt. d'Ornano
Henry Stephenson
as Count Anastas Walewski
Leif Erickson
as Paul Lachinski
May Whitty
as Laetitia Bonaparte
Maria Ouspenskaya
as la Comtesse Pelagia Walewska
C. Henry Gordon
as le Prince Poniatowski
Claude Gillingwater
as Stephan
Vladimir Sokoloff
as Dying soldier
George Houston
as Grand Marshal George Duroc
George Davis
as Grenadier (uncredited)
Sue Moore
as Servant (uncredited)
Scotty Beckett
as Alexandre Walewska (uncredited)
Winifred Harris
as Countess Augustus Walewska
Clarence Brown
Director
William A. Horning
Art Direction
Salka Viertel
Writer
Bernard H. Hyman
Producer
Tom Held
Editor
Adrian
Costume Design
Samuel Hoffenstein
Waclaw Gasiorowski
Novel
Cedric Gibbons
S. N. Behrman
Karl Freund
Director of Photography
Gustav Machatý
Co-Director
Leo Arnaud
Orchestrator
William Grimes
Still Photographer
Zoe Akins
Talbot Jennings
George Bassman
Paul Marquardt
Leonid Raab
Ken Terrell
Stunts
Jack Dawn
Makeup Artist
Herbert Stothart
Original Music Composer
Murray Cutter
Helen Jerome
Douglas Shearer
Sound Director
Carey Wilson